Bells of the Western Cape: Recent submissions
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Breede River Valley, Worcester, Market Square
Photographs and information on the bell in Worcester Market Square. One of the landmarks of Worcester is a so-called slave bell that hangs in a horseshoe bow on the Market Square. According to documents provided by the ... -
Breede River Valley, Worcester, Lutheran Church
Photographs and information on the bells of the Worcester Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Worcester Evangelical Lutheran Church has a bell tower with two bells. The two bells are made of steel and are difficult to access. ... -
Breede River Valley, Rawsonville, Die Eike
Photographs and description of a bell on Die Eike estate in Rawsonville. In the vicinity of Worcester there is a beautiful estate with the name Die Eike in Rawsonville. The small bell is sitting in a very neat and large ... -
Cape Town, St. Martini Lutheran Church
Photographs and information on the three bells of St. Martini Lutheran Church in Cape Town. When in 1861 the Lutheran Church in Cape Town split, one branch became the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Martini Church. This ... -
Cape Town, St. Mark's Anglican Church, Zonnebloem
Photographs and information on the church bell of St. Mark's Anglican Church, Cape Town. This church has a bell that is worth further investigation. From pictures it is clear that the date on the bell is 1831. Also the ... -
Cape Town, St. George's Cathedral
Photograph and information on the bells of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town. The original chime had 8 bells, the current one 10. In the 1830s the cathedral was built along the lines of Saint Pancras in London according ... -
Cape Town, Reddam House School, Sea Point
Photographs and information on the five bells in the tower at Reddam House school in Sea Point, Cape Town. he school has a chime of 5 bells in the tower of the Reddam House (formerly Christian Brothers College) on High ... -
Cape Town, Moravian Hill
Photographs and information on the Moravian chapel and its bell in District Six, Cape Town. The chapel used to house the first urban Moravian congregation in the country. Due to the Group Areas Act the congregation was ... -
Cape Town, Lutheran Church, Strand Street
Photographs and information on the bells in the church tower of the Lutheran Church in Strand. The Lutherans built their church in 1774 in Strand Street but as a disguised warehouse. In 1779 the church was accepted by the ... -
Cape Town, Groote Kerk Dutch Reformed Church
Photographs and information on two bells of the Groote Kerk Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town. There are two historical bells in the tower of this church. De Grave Bell: De Grave married the widow of Claude Fremy, ... -
Cape Town, Three Anchor Bay, Dutch Reformed Church
Photographs and information on the bell of the Dutch Reformed Church, Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town. There is a bell that hangs in the tower of the church. In 1881, on ringing the bell for a religious service, it fell through ... -
Cape Town, District Six Museum
Photographs and information on a bell housed at the District Six Museum in Cape Town. The museum houses a bell that used to belong to Orangezicht, a suburb on the south side of the city that was occupied as a farm by the ... -
Cape Town, Company's Gardens
Photographs and information on a bell in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town. In the bell tower in the center of the garden hangs a bell from 1853 made by C & G Mears. This bell used to be the old fire-alarm bell from the ... -
Cape Town, Castle of Good Hope, store room
Photographs and information on a bell in a store room of the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town. In the storage rooms is another historic bell. The bell has been nicely decorated. Three moulding wires in the crown are followed ... -
Cape Town, Castle of Good Hope
Photographs and information on the bell of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. As far as we know, this is the second oldest bell in South Africa. It is preceded only by one of the bells of the Rhenish Church in Stellenbosch. ... -
Swellendam, Drostdy Museum
Photograph and information on a bell found in the Drotsdy Museum, Swellendam. The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk Barrydale in the town was established in 1880. The current church building dates from 1908. The church has two ... -
Swellendam, Klippe Rivier Guest House
Photographs and information on a ship's bell at the Klippe Rivier Guest House in Swellendam. The guest house Klippe Rivier has a bell that is clearly a ship’s bell. As is common with ship bells there are no decorations on ... -
Swellendam, Dutch Reformed Church
Photographs and information on the church bells of the Dutch Reformed Church in Swellendam. The Dutch Reformed Church, built in the early part of the twentieth century, is a remarkable, eclectic building constructed in ... -
Swellendam, Anglican Christ Church
Photographs and information on the bell of the Anglican Christ Church in Swellendam. The Anglican Christ Church has an outside tower that is both impressive and unusual in style. According to a commemorative plate on the ... -
Overstrand, Stanford, Dutch Reformed Church
Photographs and information on the church bell of the Dutch Reformed Church in Stanford. The main church has one large bell in the church tower. The bell is covered with dirt. There are no decorations on the bell apart ...
